Morning journal and courier., 1887-02-24

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form.
1t amounts to something to be mayor of
Philadelphia now. Mr.. Filter goes in for
four years at $4,000 a year and has 1000
offices to fill, with salaries ranging up to ST.,
so.
Many who live on unpaved and unwater-
ed streets where the dust is plenty and active
do not see why they should be called upon
to help pay for watering paved streets, where
| there is not SO much dust to be laid. There
| is justice in their protest.
Detroit has had an instructive experience
in dealing with the temperance question.
Two years ago the city was under prohibi-
| ton law, and yet there re reported to the
| police no less than 200 places where drink
| could be got. Last year the law was changed
| to high license There are now only 200
| saloons and they pay revenue to the State
| of $189, 600 a year.
The capable foreman, who sometimes di-
vides the honors in newspaper Office with
| the intelligent compositor aud the lynx-eyed
| proof-reader, has become conspicuous in the
| Office of the Cleveland Leader. The editor
German Politics" and another on "Highly
| Imaginative Fiction" By the ingenious
| manipulation of the foreman the editor was
| made to say: "Dr. Windthorst, the leader of
| the Center party, has issued an address in
evidence to show that another and not him
| self slaughtered the two women and cut his
| own throat"
The feeling of the old Democratic war
| horses over the way President Cleveland has
done business is well expressed by the editor
of the Geneva (New York; Gazette, who
says: None feel more keenly the injustice
| of the policy pursued by our so called Dem
| oeratic administration in keeping unmiti-
| gated Republican rascals in effice than the
older men of our fraternity, whose bodies
show innumerable gals and scars from pull
ing SO long and hard in the Democratic har-
ness. have asked nothing, but when I go
| to Washington and see the ship of state still
numbered with the old Republican barnacles
it makes me mad all the way through.
The discussion of the pension business
brings to light many queer stories. In 1871
Ann Howley of Rutland, VT: applied for a
pension as the widow of soldier who had
been wounded and taken to the hospital
Since then she tried in vain to find traces of
him and after waiting for nearly ten years
she gave him up as dead. Her petition was
filed. In 1880 petition was filed by the
minor child of Ann Howley asking for a pen
sion, giving the same story of the disappear
ance of her father and adding that the mother
too had gone and left the child uncared for.
And now it appears that last week Howley
himself applied for pension. His story
agrees with the others as to his hospital ex-
perisnce and gives his residence as Washing
ton, D. G. Will all three get pensionss
Spectators, and investors too, are much
interested in the European situation. Some
remarks concerning the effect on foreign and
American securities of the outbreak of war
are made by the London Saturday Review
and they are well worth attention. Says
this journal: 1t is to be recollected that were
great war to break out this governments en-
gagged in it would be obliged TO issue very
large loans If the war lasted long other